This beauty image was taken in my Milan, Italy apartment. All of the light is from a single strobe head and is raw unfiltered light except for a grid spot used to help confine the light. If you know you want to shoot with raw light, you need to get a model with as close to perfect skin as you can. Otherwise you will have a monstrous time in retouching. I spent about 10 minutes in retouching this model, a very small amount of time considering how much skin is showing.

The gear: Canon 85mm f1.8 lens set @ f3.2 mounted onto a Canon Professional Digital Camera 1/160 second @ 50 ISO set in RAW mode and a Lumedyne battery strobe system, MicroSync radio sync trigger. After the minimal retouching & converted the image into B&W then added a warm color tone.

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